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You can travel 50 miles the accent changes at least 3 times and there’s at least 2 of those areas at war over what a bread roll is called 😂
You mean barm
You mean cob
I'm from a city called lichfield. 20 mins to brum, Derbyshire, Warwickshire and cannock. No matter what way I leave the city, the accent changes in no time 😂
You mean breadcake
@@NihilistCrab that's obscene!
As someone from liverpool i can officially say that that scouse accent was diabolical 😂
was gonna say lol im not even from up north and that sounded nothing like scouse
The scouse accent is funny for about five minutes then all of you get really fucking annoying 💀
No fr I'm from right next to Blackburn and that was horrible. I'm ngl i could probably do most of these accents better than her. Still a good watch cos these Americans acc looked so jarred by it all 😭
As somebody from birmingham aghhhhhh I'm sorry but
@@nathan87Yh she fucking butchered the Birmingham accent 😂
Hi from Scotland, she missed about 50 accents from Scotland.
The Glasgow one is rubbish
The Edinburgh one wasn’t the best either. A good effort, but wouldn’t pass
@@funonthebun888 as a Scottish person, you’re very wrong. Accents will sound slightly different every 10 miles you you
@@funonthebun888What’re you on about 😂
Thinks Burns was from Inverness. Burns spoke Scots. It's a parallel language to accepted English. Not an accent.
An American sharing his fascination with the British Accent to other Americans. This was so funny🤣
I'm british.
@@matthewkent5212ok
@@matthewkent5212alright mate 😂
@@runyourpocketsg9811 I'm british but there's nothing fascinating about my accent.
Dead ass bruh
When she said 'Diolch yn Fawr' in the Northern Welsh section, she wasn't speaking English but Welsh - an entirely different language, not just an accent, and it means thank you very much. I think she did most of the accents pretty well. Even Norfolk was okay, which most people tend to morph into a west country accent.
North Wales 🙌🏻 My home!
Tbf, wales is in britain, so the regional welsh accent could also be considered a british accent. Just not an english accent.
all where good apart from scouse lol
Lmao
@@backwardsdovah9373nah
I like how respectful they are throughout the video, it’s really refreshing
I stumbled across this video and was totally taken aback by how wholesome it was. Just 3 genuinely lovely lads seeking to understand something foreign to them. So sweet, love from the uk x
I thought the exact same. The one who's travelled to the places is fr just me when I show my friends a video, just on camera. (I have a radio face). The going back 5 seconds, the little stories to go with them. My mates get so annoyed but these 3 were actually adorable haha
And all wearing the same vest.
I’d defo say she’s better at the southern accents than the northern 😭
As a Cornishman I totally disagree, she thinks we sound like bleedy Pirates?
She was terrible
@@EvilEdd69as a Cornishman some people do sound like pirates. Usually older people or people who still speak the Cornish language
@paulcoutts7333 dunno what part of Cornwall your from but the accent I'm used to sounds nothing like Pirates! 7th generation Roseland man here.
@@Ptttsscyou've got no idea what you're on about. The Cornish language hasn't been spoken natively in over 200 years
I love how these young guys are genuinely interested. Wanting to learn about different cultures.
A lot of people get the Birmingham accent mixed up with the Black Country accent which are not the same at all.
it's legit like a mile from brum stop coping
coping? are you a real person? I'm from Birmingham and no one sounds like that. you tried tho@@heart_of_a_daedra3649
Hell yeh plz don't mix us black country lot with Brummies lol
Please don't mix us Brummies up the Yam Yams!
I'm a brummie my brother in law a yam yam totally different
She gets a 7/10 for these accents. I grew up in London and now live in South Wales, plus I travel for work so I visit most of the UK. She did a good job, but they weren't all completely accurate :)
I agree- they were ok but not great. 6/10
her scores accent was awful@@sheridanjay
yeah to be honest im disappointed in her accents, they actually dont properly show just how different our accents are. they were watered down versions i felt
Scouse accent was shit
I was thinking the same thing.
Im a Yorkshire lass, and Yorkshire is one of the largest counties of the UK and consequently divided into 4 parts - each with clear accent differences. Interestingly, I think her yorkshire accent wasn't like any one of the four ;) but I love that you find it your favourite! Yorkshire people are very grounded and huge hearted type of folks :) 🌸🌸
Im from west yorkshire and i dont think she did the accent very well either , we defo sound more common 😂
Funny thing is, I’m from North Yorkshire, live in Birmingham and talk in a noticeably West Yorkshire accent 😂
@aberfordwest4003 wait I've just said about Brummie accent deriving from Yorkshire accent 😂 I'll have to find the book
I'm from South Yorkshire and each accent is different. Sheffield are losing their Yorkshire accent not as broad as Barnsley or Rotherham and Doncaster is a mixture
@@themadhouse768 can you type the word "couldn't" in a 'Ull accent please 🤣🤣
I don’t know the lady but I think a more realistic impression could be gained from actually speaking to locals from different regions or even adjacent towns . She was comprehensible , most of the broad “ local “ accents are completely unfathomable .
Yow boy royt abawt tha !!!
Totally agree. That's what I was expecting with this video. Not one person exaggerating accents in an attempt to be funny, on top of some totally wrong information in places.
Indeed, the old boys down the local Norfolk pub almost need a translator sometimes I feel.
she's a bit bolox
Ayy bro lad you not wrong innit arr mayte sick rhyte
As a Londoner, doing Uni in West Yorkshire, I can tell you that I suddenly felt very posh after hearing how everybody else sounds
Can't beat the Yorkshire accent 👌
I'm a Leeds lass living in London - I feel like a Barbarian 😅
@@kerryholland4822brilliant 😂😂
As someone from Lancashire, I know they hate u for that accent 🤣. Be honest, how many times have you been called Tory 🤣🤣🤣.
@kerryholland4822 howling a barbarian 🤣😭. I'm in Cardiff from near Preston and for a nation famous for their odd accent I don't half get some funny looks. And then I go and say something dead northern, like the phrase dead northern and I'm laughed at. Kinda saved when the 2 lads from Bolton walked in cos jesus that's the epitome of the Northern accent 🤣
In yorkshire the yorkshire accent changes from Leeds to York to Hull to Scarborough within one county. Some farmers in the Yorkshire Dales speak a dialect that uses words no one outside of 40 miles would understand.
So if a region has a distinctive accent, that one accent then changes slightly from city to city within that region.
Midland accents change every 10 miles or so and common spoken languages even less, our diverse community is amazing and we all get along 🎉❤
I used to love Beryl Reid and her character 'Marlene from The Midlands'. I tend to pick up an accent of the people I associate with, especially when I lived and worked 'in The Valleys' of South Wales.
Im from Coventry we talk totally different to brummie and lesta Nottingham
Leicester has a very distinctive accent.
It's true! I'm in Northamptonshire. We just get on with it in the Midlands. No fuss!
Spot on, said the same thing just now!! Southam here but from Leam there's def a difference even 7 miles away, then we are 15 down road from Banbury, so goes from grass to grarse haa xx
The Scotland accents were shocking unfortunately. Ewan McGregor is from Perth and that accent is different further yet. Robert Burns was from Ayrshire, which has a similar sounding accent to Glasgow. I’m baffled as to why Inverness would be even considered as a comparison 😂
I’m Scottish and agree the accents were poor, as were the English ones, being 100% honest. I’d go as far to say Edinburgh even has half a dozen distinct accents as it’s so class-stratified, so the only one she had a go at was the ‘Morningside’ accent, which is quite exclusive.
Thought the same she just sounded like an English person trying to do a Scottish accent no offence there's lots of lovely accents in England too
I was actually wondering if she was referring to a different Robert Burns, I'm thinking to myself, nah, Rabbie was from Alloway (south Ayrshire) and is definitely more similar to Glaswegian. And, to be fair, I think she missed the mark on more more than half of the accents she was trying to do. I certainly couldn't do any better, probably would do much worse, but I don't think she was the "right person for the job". Also, name one city in the world that is NOT rough around the edges.
They were absolutely mince
Yeah, and apparently Burns was. ‘Sir’???
That geordie was absolutely horrendous just for the record
Fr
Geordie and scouse is horrendous regardless of who's speaking it lol
Sounded nout like geordie a mean howay does this bird really think she's good at accents?🤨 😂
So were pretty much all of them mate 😂
Most of the accents were shocking!
When she said "Thank you very much" in the Northern Welsh section, that was NOT an English accent but the Welsh language. Welsh is separate from English, it's a Celtic language related to Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and more closely still to Cornish and Breton (from Fance's Brittany region).
Yep, they don’t even know that English is a west Germanic language.
I’m from Glasgow and the majority of people don’t speak like how she’s said it all - a lot faster and also there are loads of different accents too. Every area of Glasgow including the outskirts - north Glasgow, South Glasgow etc can have different accents I’d say
Not a single person from Glasgow speaks like she did 😂 Terrible
aye, south side glasgow all have a really rough accent, probably cos it’s the roughest area, but if you go up the the north of glasgow it’s a lot more deliberate sounding and pronounce more, any further east and people start to sound more like edinburgh. the west seem to keep that sort of south glasgow accent tho
So many different accents here, go a couple miles in one direction and it will change a tonne. Go south you have a pretty rough accent, go further south and you have a posher accent
Yeah I’m Welsh and barely understand Glaswegian at all!!!
Yeah I found her Scottish accents to be hella inaccurate
Llanfair PG (the very long Welsh place name) was invented about 1900 as a publicity stunt. It worked.
I'm a Brummie, Jps...and the accent is much worse and more incomprehensible than she could do.... 🙂
With the slang added its almost a different language. She didnt get it right.
absoloutely butchered it, never set a foot in birmingham 🤣
Wonder what they’d think of the Black Country accent, they wouldn’t understand a word, I have to translate for my (English) husband 😂
What you mean worse? Brummie is a brill accent.
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet has a great selection of dialects. Timothy Spall, who plays Barry, has a really difficult to understand Brummy voice if you're unfamiliar, and I expect you guys would struggle to understand Jimmy Nail as Oz with his Newcastle voice as well.
I would love to see you react to 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'. One of my favourite shows to watch growing up.
There's a difference between dialects and accents. The former involve uses of different words, terms, and turns of phrase, in addition to accents. For example, North Wales English is generally considered to be one dialect, but within this there is a wide variation of accents. Even in English, their second language, a Caernarfon child's accent would be a challenge for a Flintshire kid to understand. So, while there are about 40 accepted dialects of English in the UK, the number of distinct accents must number in the hundreds.
Not really. Linguists will argue that there is not such thing as "accents" and that there's no definitive difference between dialect and language.
@@entwistlefromthewho 😂 they can argue all they want, accents exists... an american saying the exact same words sounds different than an englishman.
Dialects are to do with words used not how they're said so it 100% language...
I dunno where you got such a ridiculous statement.
@@seldom_bucket You're not a linguist. You've applied your own definitions and that's it. An accent, though largely to do with sounds, is unable to be detached from dialect (or idiolect, if you prefer). You obviously have no understanding of the evolution of languages. What's the difference between a language and a dialect? Well, there isn't one - not a hard and fast rule anyway. When does a dialect become so different that it becomes a new language? - That's a matter of debate too. It's not so much that accents don't exist, they're just a very small part of a much larger puzzle that the average layman doesn't understand, but serves as a good enough day-to-day distinction. You can argue that you know more about it than centuries' worth of academics if you want, but that just makes you a fool.
@@entwistlefromthewho Though I´m german, I understood all these brithish accents. Besides our "High-German" we like to speak our lokal accents/dialects. Especially at the german northern Coast. I´m not able to understand anything! My Northern-Coast-Friend told me, that he couldn´t understand either if he is in his Neighboring village and older people are talking.
Gag am Rande: Ich habe über 30 Jahre für amerikanische Konzerne gearbeitet. Mein Boss sollte nach D versetzt werden und er musste dafür deutsch lernen. Er wurde dann ins schwabenländische Stuttgart geschickt. Da konnte er gleich wieder bei null anfangen. 😂
@@entwistlefromthewho OH ARE YOU?
There’s the Welsh language, Cornish language (which is in Cornwall south west of the country), there’s Scot’s , Scottish Gaelic and then Irish Gaelic
Do you mean some Irish people in Northern Ireland speak Gaeilge?
Welsh is the only properly spoken one left sadly. There's like 700, 000-800,000 of us who can speak it!
@bridgallagher479 yes a lot actually. It is Ireland after all.
The reason why the "brummie" accent sounds familiar is because of the BBC show Peaky Blinders.
There are places in Yorkshire where the people of a single village speak different dialects depending on which end of the village they live. E.g. The village of Lowthorpe. People from the north end pronounce it Low(rhymes with Oh) Thup(rhymes with Pup), whilst people from the south end pronounce it Low(rhymes with Oww) Throp(rhymes with Prop).
As an outsider... Its clearly a mix of both right? Low (oh) thrope (prop)
big up yorkshire
Big up Yorkshire
Yep I’m South Yorkshire and my partner is West Yorkshire we speak different 😂
I’m a Yorkshire lass, and am very proud of my accent and love that you guys love the Yorkshire accent too! ❤
North, East, South, West or Hull?
South 🫶🏼❤️🫶🏼
@@RachelBuxton i’m from south yorkshire too and proud 😊
Joel, it was Ewan McGregor mentioned, not Connor McGregor and Ewan is definitely Scottish and from Perth 😄
I suppose they're most likely to know him as Obi Wan in the Star Wars prequels
Wales has it's own language, although many just speak English with a Welsh accent, the Welsh do have their own language. Scot natives and Irish also speak Gaelic and also have many different accents.
The language is Gaeilge, or in English it's called Irish.
Celtic languages can be broken into two sub families , Brittonic languages=Breton Cornish and Welsh and then Goidelic (Gaelic)=languages Gaeilge (Irish) Manx and Scottish Gaelic. To refer to welsh as Gaelic is wrong it is a Celtic language but not part of the Gaelic subgroup.
from the uk- its so good to see someone who has done their research, spent time in the country and understands the culture making a video like this. this is how everyone should be before claiming to 'know' a certain country's culture, so misinformation and ignorence doesn't spread. great job lad
She didn't get the Brummie ( Birmingham ) quite right but a fair effort .
Sounded more Black Country than brummie lol
That’s correct - Yorkshire accent is a no nonsense accent you’ve perfectly described it. All accents sounded excellent but the Birmingham accent is notoriously difficult to achieve. Listening to Geordie from afar (not hearing the words distinctly) makes it sound Scandinavian. Not surprising given their Viking heritage.
@@Dave-oe7ry I was on Lindesfarne at the time I heard some folk chatting in the distance. I thought they were speaking Norwegian or Swedish. It wasn’t until I got nearer I realised they were Geordies.
Definitely brummie accent was poor she did a Black Country accent closer to Dudley than Brum
She was no where near Dudley accent the Black country's accent is the worst to understand in that area, I know, I think people get mixed up with where that particular accent comes from BTW she wasn't that good at most of them
Lmao that wasn't a welsh accent, she was speaking the welsh language.
Yes please cover more UK accents and dialects maybe ones where locals are speaking 😅
A Good idea, some of the interpretations were not what I hear. Examples used not really appropriate. e.g. Maggie Smith is not Scottish and was imitating a Scottish accent on the Harry Potter Films. The cast of Billy Elliot were also imitating an accent. Most regional accents are not as strong as they were 60 years ago, possibly due to TV Broadcasting and most 'polite' people will reduce it as soon as they realise the person they are speaking to is either not from the area or they are foreign.
The Shetland Islands dialect is mental. A cross between Scottish and Norwegian. But it’s not even shown on this map!
That would have been a better way of doing it local accents and the differences between accents and dialects to clarify the only way to properly hear the accent s authentically is from a native speaker
Agreed! The south west changes with every city so I’m sure the rest of the country does too!
It was Ewan McGregor, not Conor McGregor, that she was talking about from Edinburgh. You mentioned Geordie being a weird one - it's also one of the main points of origin for a lot of British West Indian accents, many of which were at least partly settled by seafarers from the Newcastle area. You can still hear traces of the Geordie accent in Jamaican and Barbadian English accents.
Didn’t know this but makes a lot of sense
As someone from Scotland, I almost started crying and wanted to turn it off when she done Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness. It was diabolical 😂 she also missed out so many other distinct places in Scotland. On the plus side, I thought you guys are awesome and you now have a new subscriber! :)
The Scottish accents were absolutely dire.
@@LEx-ho1bd You’re correct , she was dire all round.
Lancashire in particular was pretty bad
@@ScoiataeI I’m from Edinburgh and she made us sound like we all have cut glass accents. We definitely don’t .
@billiejeanmartinlaing1678 she's obviously never been down Gorgie or Easter Road!...
Also, I'm from Auld Reekie and there are at least 4 accents in Edinburgh alone!
@@HarryFlashmanVC Aye .. we defo don’t sound like that at Easter road.
I love the little grin and twinkle in your eye when talking about your night out in Newcastle. ;)
Your so clued up! Well researched
I’m so glad you travelled to Newcastle, loads of people seem to skip it when they travel to the UK but it’s amazing! And you’re right about the night life! 😂
Love the way you guys are learning about British culture, whilst keeping it light hearted.
Just came across your channel, but I’ll be sure to subscribe.
they should learn about Morris dancing, Maypole, Mayday, Jack 'o the green for example - english culture that isn't given barely any attention even by english people
She sadly didn’t cover the Essex accent, that is the original English accent
Your understanding of the regions and accents is impressive - not many reactors from outside the island know as much.
I was surprised too but he said he’d visited these places so I was like ahhh that’s how he knows lol
Lads, thank you for saying, ‘Football’ 😂…. It means a lot 👊🏼
One of the most well researched reaction videos I've seen ever
Kudos to her for attempting 3 Scottish accents but they weren’t very good 🤣 there’s also a lot more of a variety depending what city or town you go to. However I respect the effort she put in.
@@NX2Official Scotland has loads of regional accents.Even accents in the same towns can’t vary.
She said EWAN McGregor though. 😂 You know, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
And he's from Crieff, not Edinburgh. And his customary speech is SSE (Standard Scottish English) which is not geographical.
As a Yorkshire lass, hearing people from other countries saying the Yorkshire accent is their favourite accent makes me smile. Also hearing him pronounce Yorkshire right instead of York-shaiyer makes me happy 😂
I studied in Cardiff 30 years ago, you could tell what part of the city people came from by their accent. That’s a city with a population of 350k.
Many decades ago there was a programme called The Fishing Race. My cousin's Brummie accent was so broad they used subtitles. I travelled from North Birmingham to Kinver 25 miles away and it took me two days before i could understand a word.
Well Impressed with the guy on the left and his uk geography knowledge
I live in Swansea (place in Wales) and in Swansea you can go like 2-6 miles in each direction and find a new accent with different slang.
Billy connolly says it best “when you get off the train at Glasgow central, you can feel Glasgow coming through the souls of your feet” .. I shall agree with the rough part however it’s full of character, lots of architecture, museums, art galleries. It also became the uk’s first world city of friendship… a little Rough I’ll give you but there’s nowhere quite like Glasgow. 🤗 Also 4/10 for accents she sounded almost the same with everyone
I absolutely LOVE Glasgow ! The people are VERY friendly & they like to party (that was my experience anyway) . Plus I had the best fish & chips ever called a supper ? & it was amazing ❤
She was talking about Ewan McGregor, who is Scottish.
I think it's good to emphasis that the welsh accent, all the many, many various ones, being so unique is from the language we speak! in the welsh language, cymraeg, the stress is put on the penultimate syllable (example: af-TER-noon, al-TI-tude, or fu-TURE) whereas in English (also known as Saesneg in welsh) the stress is almost always on the first syllable, except for some verbs!
Also! liverpool/scouse accent is both heavily influenced by north welsh (a lot of welsh people call the north welsh gogs- as gog comes from gogledd, which means north in welsh!) and vice versa! I think scouse also has a lot borrowed from dublin and more southern parts of Ireland, as well
was looking forward to seeing you do this kind of video
edit: but definitely would love to see you watch more vids on accents!
She does a good job, its worth noting that midlands and Yorkshire accests very a lot. That there is Estuary English (working class accent of the south east) , Multi Cutural London English that many younger londoners speak and how different Manchester and Liverpool are despite being so close.
Her Scottish accents are awful
Her Birmingham was shocking 😂 but yeah there's a ton of different Midlands accents no one cares about as they are seen as unattractive
What does "accests very a lot" mean?
@@stevenmathers6661 it's English for pedant
Estuary English isn't "working class", it's a combination of received pronunciation and London accent.
that glasgow accent was diabolical 😭😭
Ok, guys, if you REALLY want classic examples of British accents, Google the following. These are true representatives of how their local dialect sounds! Here we go: For Cardiff - Frank Hennessy (I know I hate the Cardiff accent, but I love Frank!). Llanelli - Scott Quinnell (or me!). Swansea - the character “Nessa”, from the show “Gavin and Stacey”). Yorkshire - Sean Bean. Liverpool - Paul Smith (stand-up comedian). London (East End) - Ray Winstone or Bob Hoskins. “Posh” London - Hugh Grant. Birmingham - Jasper Carrott (comedian). Glasgow - Kevin Bridges (comedian). Edinburgh - Sean Connery. The West Country, as it's referred to (Devon & Cornwall, generally) - the late, great Jethro (stand-up). Newcastle - Jimmy Nail. There are MANY more, from all over the country, but I'd be here all night! Hope these prove useful/enlightening to you guys! Great channel, by the way!
cardiff hates you too
Vicky McClure for Nottingham accent.
Please don't use Cornwall in the same sentence as Devon, especially infront of!
Sorry but a farmer from North Yorkshire won't sound anything like Sean Bean
White vest gang
Maybe they have Italian ancestry?
Stella- comment 😅
I love how the guy geeks out on language so much, and actually knows a lot 😄👍🏻
As an American living in England, learning how to understand both Mackam and Geordie, I think I can understand any accent now. 😅
What about scouse
This was fun, Joel! My grandmother was from Bristol and my grandfather from Battersea. My cousins are in Derbyshire and Wiltshire, and volunteer in Dorset during summers. All different accents. My moons ago, I hosted 50 British Army Cadets visiting Canada. A cadet from Blackpool was incomprehensible to everyone except for one Brit cadet, who then translated for everyone else in the group. Amazing!! Cheers, John in Canada
That must have been fun. Good job you didn’t have a load of Scots. 🤣
If you think about the uk from the south of England to the North of Scotland you can hear the gradient of accents change and are able to see how the history of the spoken accent changes as people start to move from north to south or sounth to the north through time. Were i live in the great Manchester area, uk you can travel 3 miles and the accent changes
5:39 Speaking of the Welsh place that has a long name, that’s where Taron Egerton is from.
Robert Burns was from Ayrshire, South of Glasgow. Similar accent to Glaswegian but not as harsh.
40 ? 😂😂
There’s more than 40 accents just in the North West of England. There are many many more than 40 accents in Britain. Trust. Great video btw. * Edit- And the first Welsh she was doing wasn’t an accent, it was a language. A totally, old, different language all together. Also, where the hell is our Manchester accent ?? Silly cow, people have been shot for less.
She's entirely wrong with her three "Scottish" examples. Maggie Smith is English and does not sound remotely native to Edinburgh (in "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" she contrived a synthetic put-on accent for her character) and Ewan (not Connor) MacGregor is from Crieff, not Edinburgh. Further, she cites Robert Burns as "Highland", but he was 100% Lowland; from Ayrshire and later lived in Dumfries; far from the Highlands. Her attempt at a Glasgow accent was pathetic. She doesn't seem to realise that dropping the post-vocalic -r (pronouncing corner as "cona") does not occur in any Scottish accents.
It's also worth mentioning that many Scottish people customarily do accent shifts according to the situation and the persons with whom they are talking. I am a Gaelic speaker and I speak it with a strong west coast Mainland Gaelic accent when talking with friends in Argyll, but I shift to a more standard Western Isles Gaelic accent whenever in conversation with strangers or people I know to be from the Outer Hebrides. Likewise, when in Edinburgh I use Scots dialect with the local shopkeepers but shift to "Standard Scottish English" when addressing someone I don't know or attending a conference. This is very widespread in Scotland and other countries (I speak Bulgarian and Serbian and use different dialects in both according to circumstance) and I imagine it also occurs in much of England.
The Vicar of Dibley, Oasis... Love that you're visiting 90s Britain, specifically 😅 If you're getting into Britpop I'd massively recommend Pulp as well, their lyrics really get into the complexities of class and regional cultures - "Common People" is a great starting point. If you're going further back to the 80s Ian Dury & the Blockheads, or The Specials touch on similar themes
Blur were better
Near where I am you can drive from Huyton to Huddersfield on the M62 and hear 4 different accents. It's 50 miles and about a 50 minute drive, you'll hear Scouse in Huyton, Lancashire accent in Leigh, Manchester accent and then a Yorkshire accent in Huddersfield.
Hi, is "white vest" the new JPS reaction uniform 😂
Let’s hope! 😂
Their all wearing them. Must be terribly warm. 😅
Polish with a Yorkshire boyfriend who claims 30 years ago people were able to distinguish from which area of city someone is from by the accent (Ripon 16k citizens, but it has a Cathedral!), now I can definitely recognise different accents of locals in Harrogate and Bilton (one town, walking distance 15 minutes). She didnt do to well scottish or irish accents - could invite somebody, but otherwise she did it well.
What about in Poland. Is there much difference in accents around the country?
I’m Scottish , Glaswegian. Scotland is another country where the accents can change is a crazy way . Even in Glasgow the accent can change a bit throughout . Check out Glaswegian , then Dundee , rural parts of Scotland , west coast villages and such and the worst of all is Aberdeen . I can never figure out what their saying . The reason the Scottish and Irish thong is also due to a lot of us being Scottish Irish mix
Your mate, on the right side of the camera as it’s viewed by us. Is it, Archer, Archerio?? He should have his own channel. I hope he has. He seems informed, intelligent, witty, and capable. Definitely has a future ahead of him, that’s for sure 👌🏻
You can ID what neighborhood a Glaswegian has grown up in based on their accent! LOL And if you describe Glasgow as "rough" and not sure if it's "good" after visiting - you didn't see enough of it. It was the wealthiest city in all of Europe at the height of the industrial age and has incredible art, architecture and culture, but you have to venture away from Buchanan Galleries and Merchant City to see it.
Glasgow produced a lot of wealth for the British Empire, however it was still one of the most impoverished cities in Europe, and remains so to this day
@@literatureshorts9792 it LATER became impoverished, but if you've ever been here, you know very well that there was significant wealth and signs of it (architecture, homes, museums, art collections, etc.) from mid 1800's before the crash. Interesting example is in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods, they built 3 of 4 quadrants of posh multi-story aristocratic homes overlooking Kelvingrove park but the fourth quadrant was a empty for 170 years because the economy tanked in the mid 19th century and didn't get built/finished until just a few years ago. Isn't that incredible?
Still not as good as Edinburgh though. 😮
@@isking1715 Convince me
@@mongooz24 The architecture is superior, the theatre is superior, the green spaces are very well maintained, the history is so evident and celebrated, the museums are plentiful. As a lone female I feel more comfortable having a drink on my own. The air feels fresher. Most importantly, I can get the train home to Lockerbie, maybe that's it. 😁
Nah her impressions were diabolical
I’m from Lancashire as is my other half , he was raised in another town in Lancashire just 15 miles from where I was raised and his accent is totally different , I also use words and phrases he has never heard before . The town I come from also has a dialect which isn’t understood by people living in the other side of town
I'm just a hair's breadth away from Lancashire, and within a 9 mile radius the accent is completely different! Bury to Salford for example is a stark difference.
@@ScoiataeI I agree, but don’t you think that the Manchester/Salford accent is undermining the Lancashire one nowadays? 🤔 I hear people in Lancashire who talk like the Gallagher brothers!🙄
There are definitely more accents in the UK that you can look at, such as Essex or Estuary English,, The Shetland Islands, Jersey, and many more in the Midlands. Also its worth taking into account that your class and background will affect your accent as well. So someone from a posher area, perhaps predominately a white british part of London may speak very differently to someone who is from an area of London with a wider range of cultures and influences. Also the 'thickness' of an accent can vary person to person depending on there background and class system.
Missing out the Essex accent is a travesty!
No Manchester accent which is unique enough to have featured but loved the host's enthusiasm for learning about all our regional differences ❤
So happy to see all of you react to an accents video. Waiting for you all to react to the one on WIRED with a tour of American accents.
I live 10 miles from Birmingham here in the UK and and our accent is different all together from Brummie, I have a black country accent. They say that the black country accent is as close as you can get to old anglo saxon - (converted to black country) they say thot thee block cuntry occent is os cloose os yow con get toe owd anglow soxon. Great reaction. I have heard most of the accents from around the uk, but no matter where you go you will find a variation of it. Scientist says that accents from the midlands going northwards could be gone in as little as 50years due to schools teaching middle english.
Black country accent is something completely different isn't it?
@@Davidg65 yeah it is different to the way Brummies sound.
there was a much loved show on tv in the uk called 'Auf Wiedersiehn Pet' which was pretty good, all the actors had different accents..
The Yorkshire dialect has a variety of accents which sound quite different to each other from place to place.
It's the same in Liverpool, every area has a different dialect .
Sheffield and Barnsley have the most broad Yorkshire accent
I’m from Yorkshire and the accent is different in each city. For instance, Leeds is completely different to Wakefield as is York, Bradford and Sheffield.
The thing about the Geordie accent is that it was developed as a result of the Danish and Norse vikings inhabiting and ruling over Northumbria for 100 years. Most of our slang in Geordie is just straight up Old Norse words. We say "hyem" instead of "home", "hyem" literally means "home" in Norwegian translated to English. We say "Gan" instead of "Go" which comes from "Går". Even the word "Lass" comes from the Old Norse word "Laskura", meaning "unmarried woman". Or using "bairn" instead of "baby" which came from the Old Norse word "barn".
An example of all these in a sentence would be "Gan take the bairn hyem, lass." instead of "Go and take the baby home, woman."
It's basically a completely different language. There are things that were just profound and country-wide, such as saying "Aye" instead of "Yes", but a lot of the slang in the north of the country is quite literally just... NOT English.
I’m Welsh. From Cardiff. I’m ‘posh’ though as I don’t have an accent. Now a Cardiff accent sounds more raw, more like a Liverpool accent than a stereotypical Welsh accent. Also, I speak Welsh fluently. Additionally… her north Wales accent in this clip is NOTHING like a north wales accent, or ‘Gog accent’ as it’s known
I agree with you totally, she doesn't have a clue and is just speaking what she thinks people from the different areas should sound like...
I'm a Scot who has lived in Wales 20 years. Now Cardiff and Newport folk especially young ones sound just like London. The new London accent not cockney
@@sheronasims6783 Yeah I know what you mean. But it always makes me laugh when all of South Wales is put into one pool when it comes to accents and the view of the geography. Cardiff is nothing like the South Wales valleys. And the accents are nothing like each other either. A proper Kaaaadiff accent is raw.
@@summerssummers1986 Yep! She’s actually quite cr@p! But thinks she’s good. Like an X-Factor audition, where they think they can sing.
@aledpritchard7319 yes. South Wales is unique. Scotland has lots of accents. But not so many differences in smaller areas. Even Newport has different accents
Even each city has differences, I think you have to be local to hear them as they are sometimes so subtle too. My Lancashire accent when I went to Canada, the Canadian said I sound half English and half Scottish which I agree with, Lancashire is North England so there is a definite transition as you go from South to North and vice versa.
You dont roll R’s in the north of England like we do in Scotland and that’s one of our most distinctive markers in Scottish accents. Geordies on the other hand are very very Scottish sounding and we have largely the same vocabulary
@@boxtradums0073 yes I’m not Scottish so don’t roll my r’s but maybe a few more similarities than Southern England?
@@angelataylor2049 aye sure lol like the word ‘aye’ and you are more direct with language.
I agree, I was born one side of Wolverhampton, lived there for the first 15 years, moved about 5 miles to the other side, lived there for 30 odd years and they still say I sound posh 🤣 (I'm not) if I speak to anyone outside of The Midlands they think I'm Brummie (I'm definitely not)
People often forget Anthony Hopkins and Catherine zeta jones are both Welsh
Shoukd of done the range of accents even just around Birmingham, Dudley is bizarre lol
I couldn't hear the Brummie accent for the sound of someone running!
Haha . I was like shhh. Don't mention the B city . Let's quietly move along .
Although I still think a future Cadbury factory visit will have Jps singing B city praises lol
Nobody can do geordie unless you're geordie
I love the genuine Geordie accent! 👍😎
I don't think this might be the first time Joel commented on Glasgow. Discretion being the greater part of valour 😂
Wow! Robert Burns - Inverness - Really????? He came from Ayrshire - some 200 miles away! His poems were written in an Ayrshire dialect which is very, very different again.
And how the hell would you think of Robert Burns for an accent anyway? Not as if there's recordings of his voice.
accents change within one city. i was brought up in East Manchester and my brother was brought up in South Manchester. We sound completely different.
Came for the geordie accent (as a geordie) and it was horrific 😂
These are just some of the more major accents too. Theres countless variations!
My town is totally different from the town 1 mile away
She missed Cumbria… one of the largest counties in the UK and one with a multitude of accents within it.
So, "Received Pronunciation" (or "RP") as its name suggests, is not really an "accent". It's "received", (i.e. it's easier to think of it as a "manufactured" accent). It's the accent that was taught by all the drama schools and so was heard widely in the theatre and then in the early years of broadcasting. For decades it was probably the only accent heard on the BBC, presenters with natural local accents being schooled out of them in favour of RP. It's hilarious to see British movies from, say, the 1940s where even announcements on railway stations were made in cut-glass, RP accents!
It has the advantage of being clearly spoken and is the "accent" that most non-Brits associate with being "British", and "educated". But, I'm glad to say that natural regional accents are having much wider coverage now. ...even on the BBC!! :)
I’m always interested to hear Indian cricketers who speak with RP accents. Someone on here mentioned Freddie Mercury, who attended an Indian public school. He spoke very clearly and correctly.
Missed out the Black Country
Yeah, I think she tried to lump it in with Brummie, which I thought was slightly off.
I would love to see them react to yam yam
Scotland has a huge number of accents. Across a city the accent can change and you can tell what area folks are from. Aberdeen has a different accent too, you should hear it. Also, check out Cumbria, the Carlisle accent is pretty interesting. I've been all over the UK and there are so many different accents. All good though.
As someone who has watched a lot of ‘Downton Abbey’, I can do the HRP well.
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